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THE source for news, views and information from the wildlife and environmental media industry.
Developed by Wildscreen, organisers of the world’s largest and most prestigious wildlife and environmental film festival, WildFilmNews will provide a global meeting point for all those who share a common passion for filming the natural world to inform, educate and entertain.
Out now... February's WildFilmNews
The latest newsletter from WildFilmNews includes an 'Opening Shot' from Big Wave's Managing Director, Sarah Cunliffe, who has been trying to find reasons to be cheerful during the credit crunch-triggered recession. You'll also find all the latest news and views sent in from the worldwide filmmaking community as well as a Festival round-up and details of current training opportunities.
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Opening shot
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In this August's Opening Shot, leading tiger expert and conservationist Valmik Thapar writes about Indian tiger conservation. Hear him speak at the Peter Scott debate at this year's Wildscreen Festival when he discusses the provocative motion "You Have To Keep People Away From Endangered Species". |
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New Amazon docu in post-production
Story submitted by Quincy Russell & Yves Paccalet, the writer of Captain Cousteau.
Mini-Monsters of the Amazon
Directed by Quincy Russell. Produced by Mona Lisa Productions (France) for ARTE (France & Germany), CBC The Nature of Things (Canada) and Discovery Science (USA). Written by Yves Paccalet (the writer of Commandant Cousteau) and Quincy Russell.
How often in a lifetime can a film producer declare that he is discovering a whole new world? From the award winning team of Cannibal Mites (Wildscreen 2000 Panda Award for Innovation), Mona Lisa Productions is currently in the post-production stages of its new high definition documentary Mini Monsters of the Amazon (2 x 1 hour, 1 x 52).To reveal this secret world Thierry Berrod will be using the patented environmental scanning electron microscope coupled with the new micro scanner.
Quincy Russell, film director, confronted the dangers of the Amazon rainforest in November 2008 with a team of international scientists to discover the amazing world of treehoppers. A strikingly visual insect that is hard to come by - of 3,400 species, 3,300 can only be found in the Amazon. A new world has been revealed for the very first time.
Russell said: "When I saw the first photographic stills of membracidae, I knew this would be a challenging but gratifying film to direct. They only measure a few millimetres and we hardly know anything about them. Evolution has produced these living beings that resemble contemporary art, yet have lived here for over 40 million years. Visually breathtaking, and researchers are revealing that they even have their own language. Their story is definitely one to tell!".
"Treehoppers will at long last have their own film, I've been waiting for this moment for a long while. We are looking for the unexpected, so by it's very nature we dont know what were going to find".
Dr Stuart McKamey: entomologist, American Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA.
"We know more about the moon than we do about treehoppers, they are so mysterious".
Prof Carolina Godoy : Author & Entomologist, University Estatal a Distancia, Costa Rica.
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ARKive's new look
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The new ARKive site has been developed to be more user-friendly, media-rich and contemporary, making the visitor experience more intuitive, and encouraging further exploration of the ever-expanding multi-media collection. Our aim is for the ARKive website to continue to move with the times, bringing our users the very best wildlife imagery and species information on the world's threatened fauna and flora. Further significant changes to the ARKive website are already scheduled for this year. ARKive is a great success story, and one which would not be possible without the continued support of our many media donors, now numbering well over 1,500. We would like to take this opportunity to thank them again for their much valued support. To see ARKive's new look visit www.arkive.org. |
